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_ .JIENTIFIC EXPLANATION 

OF THE 

Creed Crusher, or Spiritual Mill, 


FOR PULVERIZING CREEDS. 


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THIS DESIGN 

Is criti ised by eminont judges as one of the most Original, Artistic, Beautiful, Instructive, 
re gressive, Agitating, Harmonious, Useful and Profitable ever issued from the 
American press. This accompanying Pamphlet is richly worth a 
position on the highest pinnacle of Literature. It 
challenges an answer. 



DEDICATION. 


“ To all who know the right — 

And, knowing, dare to do it; 

To all who love the light— 

And, loving, dare pursue it; 

“ To every true and noble soul, 

In the present, or in future ages; 
To all who ’d reach a higher goal — 
To you I dedicate these pages. 


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V „ f 

Address DR. THOMWS J. LEWIS, 
155 Sontl'i Clark St., Room 3, 1 

CHICAGO, ILL. 


Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867, by 
THOMAS J. LEWIS, 

In tha Clark. 1 * Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Northern District 

of Illinois. 




























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E XPLAN^TIOISJ 

OF THE 

CREED CRUSHER, OR SPIRITUAL MILL, 

FOR PULVERIZING CREEDS. 

This remarkable and original design is from the hand of a celebrated 
Physician and Designer, Dr. T. J. Lewis, of Boston, Mass. It represents « 
hopper into which the angelic power of our beautiful Spiritual religion has 
thrown all its opposing churches, with their creeds, mummery, hypocrisy and 
priests, together with the crimes of civilized society, to be absorbed by tin* 
Universal Globe of Spiritual Truth. It shows, at a glance, the rapid strides 
the truly scientific and divine Spiritual phenomena have made, and are now 
making throughout the world, since their first ^-development by the good 
angels, through the Fox family, of Hydesville, Wayne county, New York, 
March, 1848—only nineteen years ago. 

Already has our beautiful Spiritual religion absorbed into its Unitary Fold, 
50,000,000 of souls, from all the various sects, creeds and ranks of society—not 
excepting even the Emperors and Queens of Europe and Asia, and some of the 
most intellectual Atheists of the world — thereby giving us a “New Heaven 
and a New Earth,” or practically bringing the people into that harmonious 
state spoken of by that wise philosopher and beautiful medium, Jesus of 
Nazareth, in his prayer—“Thy Kingdom come; thy will be done, in our 
earth-bodies, and on earth,” and not in some far-off orthodox pasture. The 
Spiritual Globe of the Universe, in its divine revolutions, by angel hands fresh 
from the Summer Land, is, by its gradually grinding away, purifying and 
absorbing into itself all the creeds and inharmony that result from the present 
false system of civilization—better named refined barbarism—leaving no sinful 
political, sectarian sawdust, to be blown into the spiritual eyes of the people, 
by crafty, cunning officials, to produce what the people have suffered from, for 
the past five thousand years—viz: spiritual blindness —“That we lience- 
fbrth be no more children tossed to and fro, and carried about with every 
wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they 
lie in wait to deceive.” Eph. 4 c., 14 v. 

THE SPIRITUAL HUBS 

Of the Universe (see design) are anointed with the oils of Common Sense, 
Charity, Equity, Love and Truth, as should be all men and women’s souls. 
Love and Truth are the polarities of Justice. 

SPIRITUAL GEOGRAPHY. 

The names of the Towns, Rivers, Islands, &c., on the globe, include a few 
terms belonging to our Spiritual Science, together with the names of but a 
few of many noble men and women who have suffered and sacrificed self, 
family, friends, and life, for the cause of Freedom and our divine Spiritual 
Religion. 



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EQUITY. 

The design is just, as it recognizes the Equality of the sexes, there being- 
two male and two female angels represented. May the day come quickly 
when the American Republican Ballot Box shall be free to every true son 
and daughter of Freedom. 

POETRY. 

Those beautiful lines are grandly, equitably and aptly true to the spirit of 
the design. Read them. 

COD FOUND 

To the best of human perception, nature abhors a vacuum; therefore, 
substance only can exist, which, when scientifically viewed, is always chemically 
ethereal —is ever changing. The self existence of matter being positively self- 
evident, so also is its self-action, as the two are twins: the first position can 
not be accepted without accepting the second. Dense forms are only tempo¬ 
rarily so, as modern science demonstrates that 3,000 degrees of heat changes 
the most dense substances back to their ethereal home; and that matter, in its 
original ethereal state, is chemically a unit, or one kind of substance. The 
reason why the various forms or bodies of the universe differ in their chemistry, 
color, shape, sex, habits or modes of life, is owing to the density or rarity 
of the substance composing them. This is the reason why the planet, horse, 
bee, bird, angel, man, woman, Ac. — all made of the same kind of God- 
substance — differ from each other, but the limitation of the human mind can 
never measure exactly those differences. We should ever bear in mind that 
the substance making up any of the different forms of the universe, from the 
largest to the smallest planets, animals, insects, vegetables, including men and 
.women, is never new nor old because it can never be added to nor taken from 
the universe, but is an ever present, changing, self-existing, self-acting sub¬ 
stance, now and forever, worlds without beginning or end—for there is noth¬ 
ing new nor old, as substance, under the sun. (Bible corrected.) As substance 
only exists, and is never new nor old, consequently it never retrogrades nor 
progresses—in the sense that it never deteriorates nor improves—lienee the 
progression of any substance, or human-substance-forms, is, to the intelligent 
mind, an impossibility. Centuries ago, the difference between good and bad, 
or harmony and inharmony, could be measured with the same degree of cer¬ 
tainty as in the present century, yet the proportionate amount of evil of the 
nineteenth century is as great, if not greater, than in any past century. Jesus 
was a well-born substance-form, eighteen centuries ago—yet the world, since 
that time, has failed to show us one individual who has been elevated up to or 
beyond his good qualities as a whole. Now, I ask-—What lias become of, and 
what constitutes progression ? Progression, as generally understood and used, 
lias been misapplied, to represent an improvement in the quality instead of the 
harmonious action of substance or any of its forms, and that innate harmony, 
equity and order, is as permanent as substance itself, without which, harmony, 
equity and order can not be. Progression may also be applied to the motion 
of bodies, but not in the sense that substance can be improved in its quality. 
The last born angel strata of any planet, is chemically the same as the first bom 
angel strata, bom many millions years before. As the time never was when 
substance did not exist, hence it never had a cause beginning, consequently 
t'an never have an effect ending . The perpetual existence of substance, 
viewed in a primary and ultimate sense, totally precludes the idea of Cause 


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and Effect, at} a personal God-cause creator and destroyer. Cause and effect 
are only ax>plicable to the perpetually changing dense and ethereal forms and 
states of matter, by their recomposition and decomposition into each other: for 
of natural-spiritual-unparticleized-equitable-orderly substance, are all things 
made, and unto natural-spiritual-unparticleized-equitable-orderly substance 
shall all things return. (Bible corrected.) There can be nothing outside nor 
inside the universe of substance as a supposed to exist principle or power to 
make it alive or act, because, what would be otherwise a vacuum is already 
infilled with God-natural-spiritual substance, consequently, substance itself is 
perpetually, innately, integrally alive, or self-existing and self-acting; therefore 
incontestibly must be, the life, the soul, the spirit, the mind, the instinct, the 
intuition, the impression, the form, the order, the motion, the sound, the prin¬ 
ciple, the power, the magnetism, the sensation, the everything. In an absolute 
sense, life, soul, spirit, mind, instinct, intuition, impression, form, order, mo¬ 
tion, sound, principle, power, magnetism, sensation and substance are all one 
and the same, or synonymous terms. There can be no life, motion, sound, 
song, or language, without the primary existence of substance-forms. The 
substance-body of a bird must first exist, before we can hear its song. Tho 
reason why all substance, not perverted , assumes equitable and orderly forms, is 
because it is itself inherently, innately, and integrally, equity and order ; and 
as like always produces its like, hence, out from the universe of equitable, 
orderly, living, God-substance, must be born all equitable, orderly forms. The 
equitable, orderly God-substance that forms the eye, eyelid, eyelash, eyebrow, 
eye muscles, optic nerves, and brain, is the condition, existence, necessity, 
adaptation and use, of such dense substance-forms, to adapt them for self¬ 
protection, and to use the ethereal light for sight and seeing, and are just as 
divine, or natural-spiritual, in a horse, hog, bird, cat, hyena, reptile and fish, as 
in a man or angel, and no one can draw a line of divine or natural-spiritual 
difference between them. In an absolute sense, any substance, when reduced 
to its ultimate ethereal, homogeneous state, is unparticleized, therefore there 
can be no such thing as fine or coarse substance, high or low states; they are 
merely relative terms to define temporary conditions of substance. 

Without the ethereal light, air and magnetism, there would be no necessity 
for organized eyes, ears and lungs; there would be no demand for those ethe¬ 
real conditions of substance called light, air and magnetism. Existence, neces¬ 
sity, adaptation, use, action, principle, power, &c. } can not be without the 
existence of substance. The grandeur and sublimity of the thunder storm, 
the sun-lit hills and forests, the star-spangled atmosphere of our planet, the 
life-supporting air, would afford no enjoyment nor use, without the material 
existence of brains, eyes, ears and lungs, which are but a small part of the 
grand, sublime whole, of the universe of self-existing, self-acting, unparticle¬ 
ized, equitable, orderly substance, as God being “ All in All.” 

“ Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind 
Sees God in clouds and hears him in the wind.” 

The existence, necessity, adaptation and use of all substance positively define 
that* its dense and ethereal states exist for, and are perpetually interchanging 
with, each other; hence the dense human body exists for its ethereal spirit 
body and band, and the ethereal spirit body and band exist for the dense 
human body—and the same is true of all other forms. 

The wise and gentle Nazarene, by trying to see how far he could indue- 



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tively reason from the surrounding seen effects back to their causes, found 
himself lost in a mist of doubt. This led him to find his ignorance, and 
thereby that true gem of eternal happiness, Humility— “ For except ye be 
spiritually converted, and become as little children, ye can not enter into the 
Kingdom of Heaven or Harmony.”—Matt., 18 c., 8 v. (Bible corrected.) That 
humility found for him the truthful passiveness so essential for a full spiritual 
influx into his mediumistic body, through the phrenological Central-Sun-Soul 
organ of his brain, which, being connected by spiritualized material rays to 
each of its surrounding planetary organs, made him intuitively or spiritually 
the people’s prodigy for all true knowledge.* In a word, Good, or God is 
inherently, innately, integrally All in All, as the Universe of self-existing, self¬ 
acting, homogeneous, unitary, magnetic, ethereal, gaseous, unparticleized, 
equitable, orderly-substance. In more condensed language, God' is a circle 
of universal spiritual substance, the circumference of which is no where-—its 
divine center every where—for 

“All aro hut parts of one stupendous whole,” 

These axiomatic remarks will tend to explain in brief this divine subject— 
God and Soul—on the second fold of the Ribbon supported by angel power. 
See Design. 

FREE SOIL. 

All land is naturally free for all life , without the incumbrance of titles, 
deeds, doubts, and lawsuits. Mankind, under a true Cliristian state of society, 
have no more right to buy and sell land, than they have to buy and sell air, 
light, water, electricity, or their children. Even the noted Indian Chief, 
Black Hawk’s superior wisdom led him to say, in opposition to the injustice 
of the white man’s encroachment upon their free territory, that “ a man had 
no right to sell what he could not carry away.” The ownership of land first 
led to ajperversion of the organ of Acquisitiveness, which in turn led to the 
invention of money, or filthy lucre, and that money led to perverted selfish¬ 
ness, competition, strife, deception, poverty, inequality, gluttony, crime, intem¬ 
perance, squirting tobacco juice, and loss of virtue. Let the people, through 
the Ballot Box, make all lands free for use only: then muscle and mind will 
become the only currency, and sixty minutes’ labor per day, will give every 
true natural-spiritual Christian all he should require. “For the earth is the 
people’s and for other life in the fullness thereof.” (Bible corrected.) Jesus 
had large and active acquisitiveness, but he used it only to acquire natural- 
spiritual wisdom from that Bible not made with hands—the Bible of Nature—■ 
and with his spiritualized benevolence, gave it away as fast as he received it. 
Mankind’s organization demands that they live only a rural life. This but 
briefly explains the great subject of Non-ownership on the third fold of the 
Ribbon. 

FREEDOM. 

Strange as it may seem, a large majority of the people are ignorant of the 
real authorship of American and the World’s present and ultimate Freedom, 
which may be historically and justly traced to Freedom’s Medium, Thomas 
Paine. It was the patriotic spiritual thunder of Mr. Paine’s soul, that lion¬ 
ized the previously timid souls who formed the Continental Convention of 
Philadelphia, and nerved them to strike for Freedom—“For the Rights of 

* Note.— The author has discovered that the Central-Sun-Soul organ has its locality in the 
Optic Thalamus of the hrain, which will be more fully described in a larger work. 


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Man"—to declare themselves Free and Independent. Benjamin Franklin, 
Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Lafayette, General Washington, and our 
brave Continental Army, were Mr. Paine’s most ardent admirers. Mr. Paine 
was the only man in the country who could and did do without fee or reward , 
what other minds and the Continental Treasury could not do: he raised the 
funds necessary to feed, clothe and inspirit our then brave, ragged, bootless, 
starving, desponding army. Previous to the war, when the members of the 
Continental Convention argued that England had men, money, ships, ammu¬ 
nition and experience, and we had neither, they began to tremble in their 
shoes,—at that critical point, Mr. Paine was introduced to the Convention by 
Benjamin Franklin, to reinstate brave and patriotic sentiments in place of 
their doubts and fears. (A member of that Convention remarked, that they 
should all hang together for the cause of Liberty. Benjamin Franklin, who 
was Mr. Paine’s right-hand man, replied—“ If they did not all hang together 
they would be sure to hang separately. ”) Mr. Paine’s Christ-like patriotism and 
philanthropy had left him penniless. Upon which, General Washington— 
being convinced, in his own soul, that Mr. Paine was the leading Star and 
Pillar upon which our Republic’s and the World’s ultimate Freedom is found¬ 
ed—recommended Congress to grant him the assistance he so richly deserved ; 
and they, to their eternal honor, did so, despite the shameful abuse and false¬ 
hoods of those very laymen and anti-Christian clergymen who, had they been 
true followers of that wonderful Medium, Jesus of Nazareth, would have 
admitted that their descendants would be indebted to Mr. Paine for the free 
Pulpits, Colleges and Schools they now’ enjoy, yet so basely misrepresent and 
desecrate. 

VIRTUE. 

'gp*“Virtue is the only source of happiness. That virtue which requires 
to be ever guarded, is not worth the sentinel .” 

“ Virtue that transgresses, is but patched with sin. Sin that amends, is but 
patched with virtue.” 0 Jgf 

civilization. 

As the past and present terrible state of society lias proved a failure, refor¬ 
matory minds are asking the question, “ What shall we do to be saved ” from 
the Hells of Civilization based upon man’s artificial Government, instead of a 
Natural-spiritual Government ? “ Some writers have so confounded society with 
government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they 
are not only different, but have different origins: Society is produced by our 
wants, and Government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happi¬ 
ness, positively, by uniting our affections—the latter negatively , by restraining 
our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions; the 
first is a patron, the last is a punisher. Society, in every state, is a blessing; 
but government by man, in its Irest state, is but a necessary evil. Govern¬ 
ment, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence: the palaces of kings are built 
upon the ruins of the bowers of Paradise.’’ When the Ccntral-Sun-Soul organ 
is spiritually cultivated, it purifies the body or “Temple of Life,” and man 
needs no other form of government but the Kingdom of Spiritual Truth, 
which is within the reach of alL 

The question to be put, and answered by the Universal Congress of Angels, 
is, "What is the true mode of life for the human family of the present age , aside 
from their past and present modes of life ? All mental and physical pains 
result from past and present transgressions of Natural-spiritual laws or condi- 



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tious, causing unnatural births, thereby causing us to live unnatural lives, and 
do those things that brutes would be ashamed to do. 

83T SPIRITUAL MIRACLE. _^3 

The Protestants and Catholics in the United States, with their aids of 
eighteen centuries of time, persecution, superstition, priestcraft, colleges, 
churches, nunneries, monasteries, inquisitions, schools, booh education, profu¬ 
sion of sectarian literature, personal Gods, Devils, material hells, immense 
wealth, aristocracy, official power, and three hundred years of labor, number 
but eight to nine millions, with forty-five thousand preachers; lohile the Spir¬ 
itualists of the United States , without any such aids , number eleven 'millions , 
with fifty thousand mediums, in the short time of nineteen years. 

SPIRITUALISM. 

Spirit intercourse is a fixed or natural fact. It is universal, and not under 
any special miraculous interposition of a supposed to exist Deity. The funda¬ 
mental principle of Spiritualism recognizes the universal Brotherhood of man, 
upon which alone can be based all reform movements that arc to benefit the 
race. Spiritualism, as taught by the Angels, through the man Jesus, was 
known to the Hindoos, and to Confucius, of China, many centuries prior to 
the Christian era. Spiritualism of to-day is simply a re-development of the 
same phenomena, with elevated intellects, and wisdom, to explain and practi- 
calize it. It is rapidly becoming popular and fashionable among the rich sec¬ 
tarians, whose aristocratic notions have heretofore led them to hypocritically 
worship Creeds, Mummery, Priests, and unknown personal Gods, Devils and 
material Hells. The creed churches are rapidly, yet slyly, using our spiritual 
thunder: it elevates their souls; it gives them hope; it is a lever in the hands 
of Angels (see Design), that is rapidly lifting the people of the Globe out of 
Ignorance, Superstition, Crime, Priestcraft and Political Gambling, up into 
Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth, Justice, Love, Charity and Unity. “Now, con¬ 
cerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.”—Cor., 12 c., 
1 v. “ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man, woman and 
child, to profit withal.”—Bible corrected, Cor., 12 c., 7 v. “ For by one Spirit 
are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether 
we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”—Cor., 
12 c., 13 v. 


NO SECT IN HEAVEN. 


A DREAM. 


Talkin'* of sects until late one eve, 

Of the various doctrines the saints believe, 
That night I stood, in a troubled dream, 

By the side of a darkly flowing stream. 

And a “Churchman” down to the river came, 
When I heard a strango voice call his name: 

“Good father, stop! when you cross this tide 
You must leave your robes on the other side.” 

But the aged father did not mind, 

And his Ion" gown floated out behind, 

As down to the stream his way he took, 

His Dale hands clasping a gilt-edged book. 

“ I am bound for heaven, and when I am there 
I shall want my book of Common Prayer; 
And though I put on a starry crown, 

I shall feel quite lost without my gown.” 


Then he fixed his eyes on the shining track, 
But his gown was heavy and held him back; 
And the poor old father tried in vain 
A single step in the flood to gain. 

I saw him again on the other side. 

But his silk gown floated on the tide; 

And no one asked, in that blessed spot, 
Whether he belonged to “the Church” or not. 

Then down to the river a Quaker strayed 
His dress of sober hue was made— 

“My coat and hat must be all of gray; 

I can not go any other way.” 

Then he buttoned his coat up to his chin, 

And staidly, solemnly waded in; 

His broad-brimmed hat he pulled down tight 
Over his forehead so cold and white. 





But a strong wind, carried away his hat— 

A moment he silently sighed over that— 

And then, as he gazed at the further shore, 
liis coat slipped off and was seen no more. 

As he wont into heaven, his Bnit of gray 
Went quietly sailing away, away; 

And none of the angels questioned him 
About the width of his beaver’s brim. 

Next came Dr. Watts, with a bundle of psalms 
Tied nicely up in his aged arms; 

And hymns as many—a very wise thing— 
That the saints in heaven all might sing. 

But I thought he heaved an anxious sigh. 

As he saw that the river ran broad and high; 
And he looked rather surprised, as one by one 
The psalms and hymns in the waves went down. 

And after him, with his manuscripts, 

Came Wesley, the pattern of godliness; 

But he cried, “ Dear me! what shall I do ? 
The water has soaked them thro’ and thro’.” 

And then, on the river, far and wide, 

Away they went on the swollen tide; 

And the saint, astonished, passed on alone, 
Without his manuscripts, up to the throne. 

Then, gravely walking, two, saints by name, 
Down to the river together came; 

But as they stopped at the river’s brink, 

I saw one saint from the other shrink. 

“Sprinkled or plunged? May I ask you, friend, 
IIow you attained life’s great end ?” 

“Thus—with a few drops on my brow.” 

“ But I have been dipped, as you see me now: 

And I really think it will hardly do, 

As I ’in close-communion, to cross with you. 
You are going, I know, to realms of bliss, 

But you must go that way and I will go this.” 


Then straightway plunging with all his might, 
Away to the left—-his friend to the right— 
Apart they went from this world of sin. 

But at last togothor they entered in. 

And now, when the river was rolling on, 

A Presbyterian Church went down; 

Of women there seemed a numberless throng, 
But the men I could count as they passed along. 

Concerning the road, they could never agree— 
The old or the new, which way it should be; 
Nor ever a moment paused to think 
That both would lead to the river’s brink. 

And a song of murmuring, long and loud, 
Came ever up from the moving crowd: 

“You are in the old way, I’m in the new- 
That is the false and this is the true ;” 

Or, “I’m in the old way, you in the new— 
This is the false and that is the true.” 

But the brethren only seemed to speak; 
Modest the sisters walked and meek, 

And if ever one of them chanced to say 
What trouble she met with on her way. 

How she longed to pass to the other side, 

Nor feared to cross the swmllen tide, 

A voice arose from the brethren then: 

“Let no one speak but holy men, 

For have ye not heard the words of Paul— 

Oh, let the women keep silence all.” 

I watched them long in my curious dream, 
Till they stood by the borders of the stream; 
Then, just as I thought, the two ways met— 
But all the brethren were talking yet, 

.And would talk on, till the heaving tide 
Carried them over, side by side: 

Side by side, for the way was one. 

The toilsome journey of life was done; 

And priest and Quaker, and all who died, 
Came out alike on the other side. 

No forms, or crosses, or books had they; 

No gowns of silk, or suits of gray; 

No creeds to guide them, or manuscripts; 

For all had put on Christ’s righteousness. 


IIow well does tlie above poem feacli the Biblical fact that “ The letter 
killeth; the spirit only maketh alive.” The foc/t-learned scientist, with his 
blunted instincts, fails to foretell the coming storm; whereas the hog, bee, 
bird, &c., with their unperverted instincts, never fail. Book-learning perverts 
and blunts the mental and physical powers of the race. The natural limita¬ 
tion of life prevents any one mind from reading all the accumulated facts of 
any one science (as Astronomy, for instance), even if life were extended to 
one thousand years; hence, again the application, that “ The letter killeth.” 
Spiritualism is a soul-science, embodying all natural-spiritual truths of the 
universe. As angels arc its guardians, mankind should respect and practical- 
ize it. 



